Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TRIBUTE OF SORROW Which Brooklyn Paid To Its Dead.
 THE FUNERAL OF BEECHER. Public Services At Plymouth Church.
 BESSIE MAKES A CONFESSION. The Rhein Passengers In
 Hard Luck.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER.

Hard Luck.
 HENRY WARD BEECHER. The Public Services at PIymoutE Chureh-Great Crowds Assemble t< Do Honor to the Dead Preacher. BROOKLYN, March 11.-As early as eigh o'clock this morning the neighborhood O
 Plymouth church began to fill up with peo
 pie, and by nine o'clock Orange, Hicks ani
 Henry streets were almost impossible. Linet
 of police were drawn across the streets, anC
 no one was permitted to pass but those pro
 vided with tickets of admission to tht
 church. Mrs. Beecher, accompanied by hel
 sons and three or four other members of the
 family, visited the church about haE-past
 nine o'clock and looked at the face of the
 dead preacher, but they were not present
 during the service. MT. Beecher's brothers
 Thomas K and Edward. were present during
 the service, with number of MT. Beecher's nieces. They sat in the pews immediately in front of and behind the pastors pew,
 which was filled with red and white roses
 The central aisle was deserved for immediate AA1CAuS OA tAO A6AALAJ oA0 NAsstAAS 0CAOSn1AOAAo' At quarter past ten o'clock there was not a vacant seat in the building, and around the walls and aisles were completely blocked with people, and many stood on the stairs where they could hear the singing. The music was by double quartette and the old volunteer choir under direction of Choir Master Henry Camp. The members of the quartette were: Mrs. Shelley and Mrs. Grant, soprano; Mrs. Rosan and Miss Cavanagh, alto; MT. Graf and Mir. WerrenratI, tenor; and Mr. Brown and MT. Stims, bass.
 At half past ten o'clock the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall of the Church of the Holy Trinity began the reading of the opening sen tences in the regular Protestant Episcopal service for the burial of the dead. Then fol- lowed the burial chant, ''Lord Let Me Know Mine End, rendered by the double quar- tette. Dr. Hall then read the prescribed les son from the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. The anthem s'Blessed Are the Departed" by Spohr, was then sung by quartette composed of Mrs. Shelley, Mrs. Rosan, MT. Graf and Mir. Lev inson and the tull choir. Dr. Hall then de- livered an address highly eulogistic of Mir. Beecher, praising the self sacrifice and love of humanity that had characterized his life. In closing his address Dr. Hall said:
 On his last Sunday evening in this place. two weeks ago, after the congregation had retired from it. the organist and one or two others were practicing the hymn:
 II heard the voice of Jesus say,
 Come unto me and rest"
 Mr. Beecher, doubtless, with that tire that fol- lows a pastors Sunday work, remained and lis der into the building and one of them was standing perhaps, in the position like the boy whom Raph Ts, The ns old man, % laying T his hands @ . on the boys head turned his face upwards and kissed scene % of his triumphs his trials, and his successes, forever. It was fitting close to grand life the wanderers, grea in breasting traditional ways and prejudices, great also in the gesture, so like him. blest and the poorest were his brethren the great preacher led out into the night by the little name less waifs.
 During the address of Dr. Hall and the prayer by the Rev. s. B. Halliday which fol lowed many of the congregation, men as well as women, were affected to tears, and as the rose and sang Jesus, Lover of My Soul" to the tune of Wesley there were many who could not command their voices. Earth was then sprinkled upon the coffin in accord ance with the forms of the Protestant Episcopal ritual and ''I Heard Voice" was was sung by the double quartette. The con- gregation sang Glove Diyine," one of MT. Beecher's favorite hymns, to the tune of Beecher, and the benediction was then pro- nounoed. The entire congregation was then permitted to look at the face of the dead, passing up the central east aisle and leaving the church by the rear entrance. As they did so the choir and quartette sang ''Hark! Hark My Soul,' ''I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say'' and 'tThe Shining Shore"
 Among others present in the church were the Rev. Drs. Lyman Abbott. Lindsay Par ker, Justin D. Fulton, George R. Vandewa- ter, T. A. Nelson. T. De Witt Talmage, A. J. Flynn, J. G. Roberts, E. P. Ingersoll, Jo- siah: Strong, I. K. Funk, 0. E. West, John Humpstone, R. B. Kelsey, D. c. Eddy, Geo. P. Mains, George E. Reed, W. B. Chapman, W. G. Phillips, Charles H. Buck, c. L. Wells, E. P. Terhume, Lewis Fran ces, W. D. Gulick, Edward Braislin, Thomas A. K. Gessler, J. w. Hageman, s. O. Means, w. H. Brodhead, Edward H. Butcher and Welseley W. Bowdlsh. The following color ed clergymen were present. w. V. Tunnell, Ebenezer Bird. J. w. Stevenson, William H. Dickerson and A. M. Freeman. Among other persons present were Senator w. M. Evarts, ex-Mayor Low, Ma, or Whitney, Gen. Benja- min F. Tracy, Surrogate Rollins, U. S. District Attorney Wilbur, ex-U. s. District-Attorney Asa ": stranahan, Postmaster Hendrix, Assemblyman Bacon and delegation from the Union League club. It was announced that the doors of Plymouth church would be kept open until four occlok this afternoon in order to allow the public further oppor- tunity Of looking upon the face of the dead preacher.
 The burial will be in Greenwood to-mor- row morning. It will be strictly private, only members of the family following the hearse to the receiving vault where the body will be temporarily placed. Mayor Whitney, the members of the board of aldermen and the legislative committees appointed to at tend the funeral, met just before ten o'clock this morning in the Mayors office in the Brooklyn City Hall. The legislative com ernor Jones, Senator Pitts, President pro tenn of the State Senate, Senators Griswold, Pierce, Sloan and Parker. The As senbly committee was composed of Assemblymen Bacon, McCann, Griswold, Pierce, Sloan and Parker. They wore white satin badges, printed in gold, and trimmed with gold fringe and marched down two abreast, headed by the Mayor and the Lieu tenant Governor and followed by the mem bers of the board of aldermen.
 The members of the board of supervisors of Kings county met in the supervisors room about 9:30 o'clock this morning, and after being furnished with badges marched down to 8 church in the body:
 Commemorative services were held in the First Baptist church, Clinton and Pierrepont streets; the First Presbyterian church, Hen ry, near Clark street; Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont street and Monroe Place; and the Sands street Methodist church, opposite the entrance to the bridge. In these services Revs. Jesse B. Thomas, T. Dewitt Talmage, A. J. F. Behrends, w. l.. Phillips, Charles Cuthbert Half, Theodore L. Cuyler, George E. Reed, A. J. Hutton, A1mon Gun pison, Thomas Armitage. H. M. storrs, F. 4. Farley, s. H. Camp, Lindsay Parker, A. J. Garfield, J. c. Allen and Leon Harrison took part. At each of these churches there was large attendance. and addresses highly eulogistic of Mir. Beecher were delivered. The following hymns were sung: Hove Divine," 'tThe Shining Shore," Jesus, Lover of My Soul" and Jerusalem the Golden"
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